6 responses to “Suffragette Slasher Story from film artist!”

It sounds pretty awful what this English suffragette did. But you have to look at the bigger picture. The suffrage movement was a nonviolent movement overall. The women didn’t declare war and run around shooting those who resisted them. They did everything right, according to the rules. After years of that, they went on to bolder methods, still nonviolent. This is part of history.

I love all the individual stories & events that make up the large suffrage movement. I wonder what conservation efforts were used after this painting was “slashed”. Of course, I’ve never heard this mentioned anytime I have seen the painting.

Emmeline Pankhurst was not a non-violent activist. I probably would not have belonged to her camp, however she did keep suffrage in the news. This allowed the debate to continue. Alice Paul & Lucy Burns, among others learned from the Pankhurst camp and adjusted accordingly.